GHC 9.8.1-alpha1 is now available

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the first alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org. GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:

• Preliminary support the TypeApplications language extension, allowing types to be bound in type declarations.
• Support for the ExtendedLiterals extension, providing syntax for non-word-...